Kafka's Metamorphous And The Diary Of A Mad Man

The works of literature Metamorphous by Kafka and the Diary of a mad man by Lu Xun both explore topics of savagery and reality. The structures of these two readings were completely different as diary of a mad man was structured as a short story with daily journal entries. The diary described the transformation of Madman's thoughts from day to day. Metamorphous is based on a first person narrative of traveling salesmen that also explores the topics of savagery and reality through Gregor's transformation of becoming an insect. Reality in the two readings are consistently questioned through the reading as Kafka and Lu Xun failed to provide a full explanation of the characters. The questioning of reality of the reader in these two readings forces the reader to visualize and find secondary
Xun writes “Those words were poison! That laughter, a knife! Their teeth are barred and waiting-razor sharp! Those people are cannibals!”(246) Initial thoughts after this line aren't of anyone eating a human, But instead helps the reader see an image that has secondary definitions. The sub conscious is something we all have and these thoughts help us question human interaction to separate reality from a dream. These visualizations and choice of descriptions helps us receive a more elaborate definition to what the story symbolizes. The contrast of laughter and knife is one of the many thoughts that we come by as humans everyday. Any time someone laughs we like to question why they are laughing. If we experience laughing without being knowledgable of what is causing the laughter it automatically seems evil, which makes an individual defensive. With this explanation mad mans thoughts seem